Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 59 69
Rank change year-on-year -45 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,616 1,936 3,618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.35% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.70% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 970 2,698
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -14.23%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.70% -10.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -40 1,470 £75,000 +0.17% 403
UK excluding London -84 784 £65,000 -7.14% 297
Work from Home -29 711 £67,500 -3.57% 245
London -7 710 £85,000 +1.80% 159
North of England -48 329 £69,310 -4.40% 94
South East -31 204 £67,500 -3.57% 90
North West -52 177 £75,000 +3.45% 58
Yorkshire -37 84 £65,000 -11.79% 21
Midlands -65 83 £67,500 - 25
South West -77 71 £52,500 -23.39% 52
North East +11 68 £65,000 -6.50% 16
West Midlands -51 58 £78,750 +12.50% 16
East of England -27 43 £60,100 +0.17% 14
Scotland -60 28 £60,000 -23.87% 13
East Midlands -63 24 £65,000 +4.00% 9
Wales -35 23 £67,500 +29.81% 7
Northern Ireland -27 7 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.05%) Confluence
3 13 (0.80%) Apache
3 13 (0.80%) CMS
3 13 (0.80%) IIS
4 10 (0.62%) JBoss
5 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.37%) WordPress
8 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.31%) Drupal
9 4 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) Liferay
11 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 859 (53.16%) AWS
2 686 (42.45%) Azure
3 298 (18.44%) GCP
4 245 (15.16%) Serverless
5 163 (10.09%) SaaS
6 156 (9.65%) GitHub
7 137 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 93 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (3.40%) Azure AKS
16 54 (3.34%) GitHub Copilot
17 48 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (2.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.77%) Broadband
2 23 (1.42%) Network Security
3 11 (0.68%) DNS
3 11 (0.68%) MQTT
4 10 (0.62%) DMARC
5 9 (0.56%) Internet
6 8 (0.50%) VPN
7 7 (0.43%) DHCP
7 7 (0.43%) Firewall
7 7 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.37%) AMQP
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.31%) LTE
9 5 (0.31%) RFID
10 3 (0.19%) Modbus
11 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.12%) SNMP
11 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (13.86%) MongoDB
2 199 (12.31%) NoSQL
3 180 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
4 99 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
5 97 (6.00%) MySQL
6 90 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 82 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 77 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 48 (2.97%) Redis
10 46 (2.85%) DynamoDB
11 43 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.79%) Big Data
13 26 (1.61%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.80%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.43%) Db2
17 6 (0.37%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.37%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.37%) Metadata
17 6 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 194 (12.00%) Git
2 153 (9.47%) GitLab
3 126 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.34%) TeamCity
5 48 (2.97%) JUnit
6 42 (2.60%) JIRA
7 38 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.98%) Mockito
9 30 (1.86%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.79%) Claude Code
11 28 (1.73%) CircleCI
11 28 (1.73%) Maven
12 18 (1.11%) Selenium
13 17 (1.05%) Vite
14 16 (0.99%) JMeter
15 15 (0.93%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.80%) Postman
17 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.56%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.56%) Spock
General
1 436 (26.98%) Finance
2 297 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 159 (9.84%) Banking
4 144 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (5.69%) Retail
7 86 (5.32%) Law
8 80 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.28%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.78%) Back Office
11 29 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.49%) Marketing
14 18 (1.11%) Advertising
15 17 (1.05%) Billing
16 16 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.80%) Legal
18 11 (0.68%) Games
19 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 561 (34.72%) Developer
2 399 (24.69%) Senior
3 329 (20.36%) Software Engineer
4 231 (14.29%) Architect
5 225 (13.92%) Lead
6 142 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 134 (8.29%) Java Developer
8 132 (8.17%) .NET Developer
9 122 (7.55%) Java Engineer
10 119 (7.36%) Senior Developer
11 113 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 87 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 69 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
15 63 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 59 (3.65%) Lead Developer
17 56 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.66%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (23.51%) .NET
2 355 (21.97%) React
3 316 (19.55%) Node.js
4 275 (17.02%) Spring
5 255 (15.78%) RESTful
6 250 (15.47%) Spring Boot
7 218 (13.49%) REST
8 198 (12.25%) Kafka
9 154 (9.53%) AngularJS
10 147 (9.10%) .NET Core
11 142 (8.79%) ASP.NET
12 136 (8.42%) Vue
13 113 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
14 83 (5.14%) HTML
15 80 (4.95%) gRPC
16 76 (4.70%) .NET Framework
17 75 (4.64%) CSS
18 69 (4.27%) ASP.NET Web API
19 65 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
20 62 (3.84%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 476 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 280 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
9 34 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.86%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.73%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.49%) AI Agents
15 23 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.36%) PKI
17 21 (1.30%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (1.11%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.88%) Linux
2 40 (2.48%) Windows
3 20 (1.24%) Unix
4 7 (0.43%) CentOS
4 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.31%) Debian
5 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Android
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 686 (42.45%) Agile
3 589 (36.45%) DevOps
4 586 (36.26%) Software Engineering
5 436 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 391 (24.20%) Containerisation
7 368 (22.77%) Mentoring
8 340 (21.04%) Test Automation
9 321 (19.86%) Event-Driven
10 315 (19.49%) AI
11 306 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 302 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 280 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (12.93%) Scrum
15 199 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
16 197 (12.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 190 (11.76%) TDD
18 188 (11.63%) Coaching
19 183 (11.32%) Clean Code
20 173 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 541 (33.48%) Java
2 408 (25.25%) Python
3 385 (23.82%) SQL
4 364 (22.52%) C#
5 358 (22.15%) JavaScript
6 278 (17.20%) TypeScript
7 117 (7.24%) Go
8 51 (3.16%) Scala
9 46 (2.85%) PHP
10 42 (2.60%) Bash
10 42 (2.60%) C++
11 35 (2.17%) Ruby
12 27 (1.67%) C
13 23 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 23 (1.42%) Rust
14 20 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.11%) Bicep
16 17 (1.05%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.80%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 189 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 162 (10.02%) Degree
3 128 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.71%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.67%) CISSP
9 25 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.74%) CISM
14 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.50%) PhD
16 7 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
18 5 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.05%) QA
2 51 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.29%) GDPR
4 35 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.49%) NIST
7 22 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 15 (0.93%) GRC
9 14 (0.87%) NCSC
9 14 (0.87%) WCAG
10 11 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.062%) Data Quality
System Software
1 460 (28.47%) Docker
2 17 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 492 (30.45%) Kubernetes
2 304 (18.81%) Terraform
3 88 (5.45%) Grafana
4 87 (5.38%) Ansible
5 49 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.42%) Kibana
7 22 (1.36%) Argo
8 13 (0.80%) Cilium
8 13 (0.80%) Puppet
8 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Nagios
11 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 209 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.27%) Google
3 50 (3.09%) Oracle
4 45 (2.78%) Typelevel
5 29 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.49%) Splunk
7 21 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.80%) IBM
9 13 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.68%) SendGrid
11 10 (0.62%) Adobe
11 10 (0.62%) Databricks
12 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.56%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.56%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.50%) Cisco
14 7 (0.43%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.43%) SAP